Academic Misconduct and GenAI
Generative AI tools reached students faster than institutions could write policy for them. Within months of ChatGPT's public release, UK universities had to decide, case by case and often under press scrutiny, whether…
Education and Research
Pedagogy, learning design, and research methods.
Fractal Terrain Report
A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a raster grid that assigns an elevation value to each cell of a geographic area, and it underpins most terrain work in GIS, hydrology, disaster planning and computer graphics alike [1]…
What Higher Education Needs to Do About GenAI
Most of the public debate about generative AI in universities has focused on catching misconduct. That is necessary but not sufficient — the harder, less visible problem is that GenAI is now something most students use…
Avoiding the AI Short-Circuit
The strongest evidence currently available on generative AI and learning outcomes — a 30-month panel study of 26,811 secondary students — finds that using GenAI to complete homework raises assignment scores by 18% and…
Managing Individual Learning Plans Across Large Cohorts
An Individual Learning Plan (ILP) — the record of the reasonable adjustments a disabled student needs, whatever a particular institution's paperwork calls it — is easy to manage well for a handful of students and…
Rubrics in HE
Detailed rubrics carry a real, moderate, well-documented average benefit to the marks awarded on assessed work and to self-regulated learning — but that outcome measure is not the same thing as learning retained, and…